Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd best fetch the smaller basket , ’ she said , ‘ on account of your condition , begging yer pardon , ma'am . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The swelling 's down , and the bruise almost gone , but I 'd better change the dressing on your wound after you come downstairs . ’ |
| 3 | Actually — ’ she frowned at her watch as she followed the other girl to the door ‘ — I definitely think I 'd better give the coffee a miss . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better lead the way , ’ he says grudgingly . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 'd better lead the way . ’ |
| 6 | Suppose I 'd better do the washing up . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 8 | ‘ But first I 'd better check the bedrooms . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd better check the figures . |
| 10 | Now I 'd better check the answering machine … ’ |
| 11 | I 'd better have the potty just in case . |
| 12 | So I thought I 'd better bury the poor thing . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'd better find the boats for Venice , ’ she sighed , resigned to the fact that no one had come to meet her . |
| 14 | Then I figured I 'd better try the same approach on guitar , so I put a really high nut on this old Gibson Melody Maker and I started using bottleneck on it . |
| 15 | I 'd better phone the police they 'll know who owns this wood , and get him to free you . |
| 16 | ‘ Please do n't be worried , ’ she said at once , ‘ but I think I 'd better phone the doctor . |
| 17 | So I waited , he generally turned up , I 've seen him not be up home till eight and half past eight in the morning but he never turned up so about nine o'clock I says , I 'd better phone the police . |
| 18 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd better get the glucose testing kit , ’ she mumbled as she edged towards the French window that led into the breakfast-room and then along a passage to the suite of rooms used by Faye and Bill . |
| 20 | Now I 'd better get the horses in . ’ |
| 21 | Edwin was a crafty old so-andso and he did n't like his children very much — not that I blame him — so I thought I 'd better get the beneficiaries together and explain . |
| 22 | Eventually , Michael Banks just stopped , looked out at the director , and said , ‘ Look , sorry , Peter old boy , I 'd better use the book . |
| 23 | Well I 'd better put the duvet in the wash then . |
| 24 | I was certainly the ideal subject for his little tricks of ringing the door bell and running away , because I dared not ignore the summons in case it might be a client , and also the consulting and operating rooms were such a long way from the front of the house . |
| 25 | However , I did slightly disarrange the lower part of that tablecloth in order to ascertain the core temperature . |
| 26 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 27 | Could I just clarify one other point , erm I did incorrectly advise the panel on the ten miles . |
| 28 | When I did finally traverse the hills it was on a spring day of constantly changing conditions , all of them chilly . |
| 29 | Yes , I did in fact erm whilst when we were going through the education proposals erm I did list reductions as John has mentioned , but I did also include the extra valuation for primary staffing that erm has went into our budget and the Liberal Democrats and I think Labour 's originally , which is now included in the combined Council budget . |
| 30 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |